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SSHFS keeps asking for a password despite ssh key present

I have a valid SSH key on my client, and my public key is uploaded on the remote server. I can login with the SSH key without being prompted for password using SSH, but when I try doing so with SSHFS ...
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Windows 7 sees internal hard drive as an external hard drive?

Running Windows 7 (x64) with four drives. After installing the Windows 7, all the drives were correctly seen as internal drives. But I changed the drive letters of three of them to avoid rescanning/...
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Windows 10 CMD responds extremely slow

My command line is so slow. I mean even ruby -v takes 10-13 seconds to return version and more complex commands like running rails s is a pain. I tried chkdsk and no problem found. Tried to have ...
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BitLocker encrypted drive doesn't work on other PCs

I have a BitLocker encrypted 1TB USB drive which is usually always connected to my work PC, and it works perfectly: However, if I try to move the drive to another PC, it will always say that the "USB ...
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Unable to mount external hard drive, any information is very slow

I have used a My Passport 2Tera for 2 years and it suddenly it runs very slow (around 10 minutes until windows mount it and 1-2 minutes to list a folder content). I've seen some similar issues and ...
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Trying to identify this cable name. Hard drive cable

Trying to identify this cable connector name. Specifically, the part that is circled. I know what the whole cable is called, but I am trying to buy some circuit board and I want to search "Circuit ...
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How do I mount a raw APFS filesystem from the commandline on macOS?

Creating a raw image with an APFS filesystem in it is pretty straight-forward: $ hdiutil create -megabytes 1 -layout NONE -fs apfs -volname unicode unicode.dmg created: /Users/daniel/test/apfs/...
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Cannot mount BTRFS disk: "open_ctree failed"

Yesterday, I cannot mount my movable disk formated with btrfs. Kenel message (dmesg output): [38257.314422] BTRFS info (device sdd): disk space caching is enabled [38257.328731] BTRFS critical (...
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mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock

I want to mount a hard disk in remote debian server to retrieve some important data. The fdisk -l info of the disk : Disk /dev/sdc: 931.5 GiB, 1000204886016 bytes, 1953525168 sectors Units: sectors ...
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WD Red Pro vs Black vs Gold

I need to replace a failing hard drive in a server which uses software RAID1, and am looking to understand the differences between drive "colors" for possible drives. I'm intending on purchasing a 6 ...
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Local buffer for downloads directly to network drive

Apologies if this is a very trivial question. I'm intending to use a Windows platform to download several large files from the internet directly to another networked location (web-based network drive, ...
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How do I configure Hardware RAID when installing Ubuntu?

I have a DELL precision workstation which is supposed to have a Hardware RAID controller. However, I have no knowledge/experience with setting up that kind of system. It is currently running Ubuntu 14....
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Mounting Apple Core Storage partition on Ubuntu 17.04

I've a dual-boot OSx 10.11.4 El Capitan and Ubuntu 17.04 machine. Ubuntu can't mount or read the HFS+ partition, which was changed to Apple Core Storage in an upgrade from a previous version of the ...
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Short S.M.A.R.T test completes successfully with gnome-disk, but smartctl reports a read failure

I acquired an used 1Tb Western Digital hard drive and I want to check its health status under Linux Mint 18.2. I checked its S.M.A.R.T health status and everything is reported as OK. gnome-disk ...
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Macintosh HD volume reduced after error during Bootcamp Partition

I was creating a new partition with bootcamp assistant, when this screen came up: your computer restarted because of a problem When the computer was on again, I checked my disk utility and the ...

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